Li Fei’s next step is undoubtedly development.

The so-called development mainly involves population, economy, and military development.

The population is difficult, and no method can work in a short period of time. Li Fei has only two years, so he mainly focused his development on economic and military.

With the economy, we can attract more people to Anton, and with the military, we can ensure Anton's safety.

Lu Xin was seriously injured for a month and has now basically recovered.

After a brief discussion, Li Fei finally moved the Protectorate to Liaoyang. Of course, on the surface, Yi County was still the Protectorate, but Li Fei moved the entire Andong team and all the focus of development to Liaoyang and the Liaodong Peninsula.

"Andong has always been bitter and cold, but the four towns in Anxi of the Western Regions are even more bitter and cold than Andong, but their momentum and military power have developed better than Andong. The countries in the Western Regions heard the name of the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, and they surrendered in great fear. Why can't I, Andong?"

"So, I am willing to develop Anton. What do you think?" Li Fei asked the officials of the Protectorate Office present at Liaoyang City, the New Jiedushi Mansion. Among them were the former officials of Anton, such as Lu Xin, and Du Fu, Wu Sheng, Zhang Shuo, Mao Youde and others who followed Li Fei from Chang'an City.

"The ambition of the Jiedushi is admirable. Lu Xin believes that it can build water conservancy and develop people's livelihood." Lu Xin put forward his own suggestions. After years of control of Andong, Lu Xin has a relatively good understanding of Andong. He has thought about developing Andong before, but Andong is not a large population and is bitter and cold. He really has no better way.

"The Liaohe Plain is located in Liaoyang, but there is not much arable land. It is inevitable to build water conservancy and increase arable land. Is there anything else?" Li Fei asked the others again.

"Mr. Jiedushi, Anton has many specialties, such as long-lasting white ginseng, deer antler, and mink, which are all scarce items in the Central Plains. Whenever they appear in the Central Plains, they can be sold at a high price. They can be collected in large quantities and try to enter the Central Plains." Mao Youde thought for a while and said.

"This is economical and a good idea, is there any?" Li Fei continued to ask with a smile.

Although Li Fei had already made plans, Anton could not do it alone, and he had to give others the opportunity to show his ideas. Otherwise, wouldn't others have too little presence and would easily develop the habit of obeying orders in everything, which would be bad for Anton's future.

After an agreement, the suggestions from others and the suggestions put forward by Li Fei himself were added to finally determine a complete set of economic and livelihood development plans.

The first step is to build a large-scale workshop and mass-produce cement on a large scale.

Although Li Fei had long presented the method of firing cement, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang also issued an order to spread it to various states to produce it on their own, for building bridges and dams. Andong himself also produced it, but what Li Fei presented was the most primitive method. Not only was the output low, but the quality was also unstable, and it was far from keeping up with the demand. I don’t know how many times the discount would be given when working on water conservancy without cement efficiency.

In the past, I gave it with a purpose. As long as I let this thing appear in front of the world, I don’t care about any method of burning it out, so what I gave it out was only the most primitive method.

Now Li Fei wants to use it himself, and it is going to be used on a large scale. Of course, he has to use everything he knows and mass-produce more cement as much as possible. So he directly built a hydraulic spiral kiln.

The cement originally stored in Andong was used to block a small river next to Liaoyang to build a dam, and a large iron pipe was poured with iron, and then a kiln was built to start firing cement.

The cost of spiral kilns is greatly reduced, the quality is stable, and the efficiency is also increased exponentially. Li Fei allocated funds to build ten spiral kilns in a row, and it is expected that the daily energy production capacity will exceed 50 tons of cement after the construction of the city.

Although this output is still too low to be lower in the eyes of the future, and the ten spiral kilns are not as good as one in the next generation. However, compared with the output of other parts of the Tang Dynasty, the output of firing in the most primitive methods is also one by one.

While building a cement kiln, Li Fei also asked Zhao Ye and his family to build a porcelain kiln at the foot of the mountain east of Liaoyang, and also prepared to mass produce porcelain.

Since we want to mass-produce porcelain, it is certainly impossible to rely on the Zhao family members brought by Zhao Ye. At most, they can only take care of one porcelain kiln. The output of one porcelain kiln is limited, and because it is a new kiln, the quality is definitely poor, which is inconsistent with Li Fei's purpose.

For real mass production, more porcelain kilns must be built and a large number of people are recruited from outside. However, the skill of porcelain firing is not something that everyone knows, and novices need to accumulate over many years to be proficient in learning. Li Fei has no time to waste and wait for the workers to be proficient over many years.

It is not realistic to let the Zhao family teach their ancestors' porcelain-burning skills to outsiders in this way. Li Fei's forced request will make the Zhao family disappointed.

Therefore, Li Fei introduced the methods of working in later generations to divide the work and flow operations. As the "master", the Zhao family members who were proficient in porcelain firing technology separated the entire set of porcelain firing technology and divided it into more than twenty processes from beginning to end. Each worker only taught one process to form a production line. In this way, even one or two Zhao family members who were proficient in porcelain firing technology could manage a production line, and one production line would build a porcelain kiln. Li Fei built twelve porcelain kilns in one go.

In fact, Li Fei used this method to mass-produce cement. If other workshops are built in the future, it will definitely be the same method. After all, the ultimate method that capitalists came up with to exploit labor was popular in capital modernization. Such production efficiency is definitely the highest, and they are not afraid of technology leakage.

So many cement kilns and porcelain kilns were built at once, but not just the labor volume of the large kiln itself, but the labor volume of the two entire industrial chains.

And after the cement was fired, it had to be used to build water conservancy immediately. Originally, the imperial court could have let the people do it free of charge by using corvee labor, but Li Fei did not want to do that, and still used recruitment to pay wages to allow the people to get some income.

After all, the most important thing he developed Anton was to make the people rich. Only when the people became rich can Anton become rich. If the people were only allowed to do things and not give them wages, how could the people become rich?

Li Fei didn’t understand economics very much, and the people of the Tang Dynasty didn’t understand even more.

They would not think that only when the people become rich can they have money to buy more various commodities. If the demand increases, it will inevitably stimulate production. The court only needs to grasp the source of production and collect taxes according to the quantity of production. The more demand and the more production, the more finances will naturally be. In this virtuous cycle, the court itself benefits and the people benefit, which is the real economic development.

The two industrial chains of cement and porcelain kilns, plus the construction of water conservancy, require personnel in units of thousands or tens of thousands. So much so that Liaoyang City is a radius of dozens of miles, and there are notices of recruiting workers everywhere.

"I worked five hours a day, and I had a lunch break at noon, and had three meals. I still had a salary of 1,000 yuan a month. I was over fifteen years old and under forty-five years old, and there was no limit on men and women!" There were not many people who knew the words, but there were always people who knew them. No, a recruitment notice was urged by the people around me to read it out.

The people were in a panic. They had a salary of 1,000 cents for three meals, and there was no limit on men and women, and they didn't work for a long time. The treatment was simply great.

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